Filing rack



` Maly 29, 1923.

v Z. AUERBACH FILING RACK y INVENTOR Z @ZMWae/ 7" Ffufvw @m law/y' ATTORNEY Patented May 29, 1923.

` Ht-E@ ZEMACH AUERBAH,

or Nnw Yoann. Y.

FILING RACK.

Application filed April 6,

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ZnMAoH AUERBACH, a

' citizen of the United States, and resident of ew York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filing Racks, of which the followingV is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a rack or holder to receive filing cards, folders and the like, which rackshall be simple in construction, convenient in use, and adapted to contain a relatively large number. of cards, letters and the like, within a small compass.

Myinvention comprises novel details of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter `set forth and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, where- 1n- Fig. l is a partly broken face view of my improved rack in card-like form;

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2,v 2, in Fig. l, parts being omitted;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3, 3, in Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a detail edge view of part of Fig. l;

Fig. 4f* is a detail view;

Fig. 5 is a partly broken face view of a modification Fig. 6 is a detail section on line 6, 6, of Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary detail, enlarged, of part of Fig. 5.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding` parts in the several views.

The rack or file comprises a body member including a rear wall or sheet of suitable material l, such as fibre board, sheet metal or the like, having a frame or stiffening means 2 at its margins. The rack may be in relatively deep proportions adapted to contain folders in which letters, billheads, documents and the like may be placed for filing, while the rack is shown relatively shallow adapted to contain cards 3Z1 upon which suitable data may be applied by writino or printing, such as tokeep appointments, memoranda of interviews, etc. In Figs. l and 2 the stili'ening bars or pieces 2 are shown laid along the side margins of rear wall l and the edges of the latter at la are shown folded around the bars 2 to secure and inclose them. The parts described may 1922. serial No. 550,234..A

- be secured together by adhesive'. if thelpf'arts are made offabric, wood or the like, or by' soldering-or in any other desired manner ifv the parts are madeof metal. The front of vthe rack is open except that at--the lower portion a wall 5 is provided at 'they front to form a pocket or Vreceptacle G-"at the lowerA part to retain' the lower portions I of the lowermost folders or cards, Fig. 3.

At the front sides of the rack are longitudinal-lyv spaced stops 7 to support the projections 3b at opposite corners ofthe folders or cards 3a `whereby the latterare hungl or suspended within the rack. The stops Orsup'-` ports 7 extend along the side'bars or pieces-2 of the rack, and may be made'by folding piecesfof wire in spaced 'loop-like form as' indicated in F igs; l-,"2,'3, Ll-f Such strips of wire or metal maybe secured in place along the side pieces 2 of the-rack byl any suitable means, such as by staples 8, or the wires may be bent in the form of eyes 7@L to receive nails, as in Fig. da. The folded material or looped wires or strips afford simple and inexpensive means to provide the spaced stops 7 along the opposite sides of the rack at the front, but such stops may be made in any other desired form, such as by means of tacks, pins, or the like, 7b, driven into the side bars ory pieces 2, as indicated in Figs. 5, 6 and 7. Corresponding stops are o n the same transverse plane on opposite sides of the rack, so that the cards or folders willhang at their projections 3" in parallel relation, with several cards or folders tucked behind one another, so that their upper edges will be exposed for observation of designations thereon.

The projections 3b may be provided on the folders orv cards in anysuitable manner. The projections 3b may be formed integrally with the folders or cards, as indicated in Figs. 2, 5 and 7. rlhe lower edges of the projections 3b may be recessed or notched at 3e to receive the stops 7.

When the rack is to be used the folders or cards may be inserted edgewise therein and their projections 3b hung upon the correspondingly spaced stops 7, so that several of theA folders or cards will extend-partly behind one another in a hanging position for ready reference for removal and insertion, their upper edges being exposed.

When the rack is used for appointment cards I preferably provide the web or facepiece l, that is spaced from the bodv wall l by the bar or piece 2, with spaced slots or openings 10 adjacent to the corresponding stops 7 or 7b, and in the space or groove 11 between the parts l, la, I provide a slidable strip 12 upon which numerals are placed to show through the openings 10, said numerals corresponding to periods of time as indicated in Figs. l and 5. The cards 3au may be hung upon the corresponding stops 7 or 7b adjacent to an `opening l0 indicating the time of appointment for a party to call. The strips 12 may be shifted to change the time indications appearing through the respective slots or openings 10. A single row of openings l0 with a corresponding strip l2 may be located along the middle or a margin of the rack, or several of such series of openings 10 and cards l2, may be provided spaced along the rack, with stops 7 or 7b in appropriate positions to receive and sup ort the cards.

y improved rack may be made in any desired dimensions7 of any suitable material for the purpose intended, and will be convenient in use affording means to file or retain a relatively large number of folders and cards in a compact form, since the main iframes portions of the folders and cards will hang suspended upon the spaced stops with most of the folders or cards located behind one another, with only a marginal portion thereof exposed for observation.

My invention is not limited to the details of construction set forth, as the same may be varied, within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is:

A rack of the class described comprising a body having series of spaced stops spaced apart to receive and support folders or cards therebetween, a strin extending along the front of the rack and provided with spaced openings corresponding in relation to the several stops, and a strip of material provided with spaced time designations fitted to the rack along said strip to show the time designations through said openings.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 4th day of April, A. D. '1922.

ZEMACH AU'ERBACH. 

